Thursday 16th June
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Hypnagogic \ [hip-nuh-goj-ik, -goh-jik]
Adjective
1. of or relating to drowsiness.
2. inducing drowsiness.
Quote
I was tired; I think I had fallen into that half-waking state which psychologists call
hypnagogic ; what I was chiefly aware of as I walked was a series of mental
images of unusual vividness.
...Michael Innes, There Came Both Mist and Snow 1940
Origin
Hypnagogic stems from the Greek terms hypnos meaning "sleep" and agogos
meaning "leading." It entered English in the late 1880’s.
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